Illustrations to Wuthering Heights by Clare Leighton

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Artist Clare Leighton, best known for her wood engravings, produced these 12 dramatic, brooding illustrations to Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights in 1931. They are said to have inspired a set designer for the 1939 film version of the novel starring Laurence Olivier.

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